Hands Off, My Loots!

While I sat on the midshift at work last night, I managed to get my backlog of google reader blog posts down from 500 or so to a little less than 100….it was an excellent night. Holy crap I missed a lot over the last month while I was gone. I plan on making a few posts over the next few days about the things that transpired during that time…this is the first.

Don’t want anyone to miss out on my awesome setup. (click images to open full size)

1. I keep up with my calendar very well…this image was taken today
2. My cell phone…:)
3. MOMMY!!!!
4. My Computer…wait…WTF??
5. “Say hello to my little friend!” (I love my wife…one of my favorite b-day presents ever…the rounds below the image are real, from the set of Scarface )…at least…they are supposed to be
6. My Loots
7. My Daughters’ Loots

Where is my computer you may ask?  Well…interesting story.

Recently, my laptop started having some screen issues.  It would stay on for a bit, then the screen would just go black.  It still had a “glow” to it…so I figured it was the power inverter going bad.  It was pretty random, so I didn’t think it was a loose wire…but I took the laptop apart anyway, and confirmed there was no loose wires.  Then…I got an excellent idea…

My wife and I have the exact same laptop…so I took her inverter, put it on mine, put mine on hers…and…mine worked, her’s didn’t.  SUCCESS!!! That’s the problem…now all I need to do is buy a $50 inverter for my laptop screen.

What happens next?  Me being the impatient ass that I am didn’t take the batteries out while I was doing this…and while I was moving the 2 inverters back to the correct computers…I accidentally turned on the computers…yet…both of them.

Now, if you don’t know what an LCD Power Inverter is…to put it simply, there is too much power coming from a standard house plug, so the power inverter (through magic!) lesses the voltage going to the screen…so, if it isn’t there…it fries the screen…dead, blown, all gone, kaput…bad and sad .

So now, instead of needing a $50 piece, I need to buy 2 $300 lcd screens for my computers…which, I can’t really afford at the moment…so, I grabbed my two extra monitors (I did have dual screen setup in the office) and hooked them up to the laptops.  And, as to why it’s not in the office…well…we almost got robbed a few month ago and my wife is still paranoid…so I moved my laptop into the living room to be with her, and haven’t moved back yet.

So here you go…my “current” Evespace

oops…that’s not it…that’s my fierce guard dog to keep the burglars away!

Here it is…finally.

1. My lovely trackball mouse…would be a little hard for a normal mouse on the couch…
2. My daughters cell phone?…maybe I got these mixed up…
3. Not mine
4. Mine
5. Aiden’s…I swear!

Just two more views…computer on left is mine, wife is over to the right.

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